Why isn't my charge controller doing its end of day thing?

I didn't actually hook the thing up, so I have very little information. It's an Outback FM60. I don't think my husband really configured anything on it cause he said it seemed like it was auto detecting what it needed to, but I'm not sure.

We've got 4x100W panels, wired in series. Twelve volt system. There's nothing on the batteries, just the charge controller. We plug in an inverter if we need power, but it's unplugged the rest of the time.

At the end of the day, instead of going into its end of day screen, sometimes it will stay in snoozing mode. Sometimes it stays in floating or MPPT float mode (if we were using enough power during the day to kick it into that mode) even though it's dark out. Sometimes it clicks around through different modes, tracking, low light, snoozing, like it does in low light conditions when it's trying to figure out what to do. Again, though, it's dark out. We're three kilometres from anything and have no lights on ourselves, so really dark.

Is it obvious to anyone what's going on or do I have to actually read the stupid manual 😒

Jan White wrote:I didn't actually hook the thing up, so I have very little information. It's an Outback FM60. I don't think my husband really configured anything on it cause he said it seemed like it was auto detecting what it needed to, but I'm not sure.

We've got 4x100W panels, wired in series. Twelve volt system. There's nothing on the batteries, just the charge controller. We plug in an inverter if we need power, but it's unplugged the rest of the time.

At the end of the day, instead of going into its end of day screen, sometimes it will stay in snoozing mode. Sometimes it stays in floating or MPPT float mode (if we were using enough power during the day to kick it into that mode) even though it's dark out. Sometimes it clicks around through different modes, tracking, low light, snoozing, like it does in low light conditions when it's trying to figure out what to do. Again, though, it's dark out. We're three kilometres from anything and have no lights on ourselves, so really dark.

Is it obvious to anyone what's going on or do I have to actually read the stupid manual 😒

I would start by going into the setup screen and setting the clock.

David Baillie wrote: I would start by going into the setup screen and setting the clock.

🤦‍♀️ Yes, that sounds like an excellent start. Once it gets light enough to bother plugging it in again, I'll do that!  Haha - maybe a skim though the manual won't kill me 😁

Jan White wrote:

David Baillie wrote: I would start by going into the setup screen and setting the clock.

🤦‍♀️ Yes, that sounds like an excellent start. Once it gets light enough to bother plugging it in again, I'll do that!  Haha - maybe a skim though the manual won't kill me 😁

Manuals always help. The fm80 actually does not have a clock my bad... here is a video of a basic setup. It does auto detect voltage but nothing else so go through the screens...
Cheers,  David